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it together we cook together we can assure the people that the world is we. rewind street food jerusalem on al-jazeera. and i'm soo tasm and london with the top stories i'll just there are yemen syria the rebels say they've attacked abu dhabi airport with a drone an official from the united arab emirates has denied that claim the airport tweeted earlier that bad been an incident involving a supply vehicle but said it had not affected flights or operations it's not clear if the tweet was referring to the same incident or tensions between saudi arabia and the who things have been rising since wednesday when the kingdom accused the rebels of stopping its oil shipments through the straits and attacking to its tankers un secretary general spokesman stefan jerrick says there's an urgent need
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for dialogue to end the war in yemen where all these events to raise underscore the need to put an end to this conflict and to find a political solution as if we still needed to be reminded after all these years after all the suffering of the yemeni people. this conflict is and has been has had a regional implications where. commercial navigation is starting to get impacted the movement of goods from global trade to start to get impacted. all these the continuance of this conflict has many many implications the most important one being the suffering of civilians in yemen. former pakistani cricketer turned politician imran khan has declared victory in the general election promising to build a new pakistan around half of the votes have been counted but the official result
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is not likely to be confirmed until friday speaking from his home in islamabad can promise to create jobs for the fall and tackle corruption but the results of the vote have been challenged by his rival parties with sharif of the pakistan muslim league now was accusing him of rigging the poll. or. odds i want to thank god that today we were successful and we got the mandate i now want to outline my vision for pakistan we're going to uplift poor people we're going to uplift the labor and laborers who are weak who are dying of hunger our population is either extremely rich or extremely poor if god wills we will fulfill all our promises. syrian government forces are inching closer to the front here with the israeli occupied golan heights as they continue their offensive on the south west regime forces could be seen raising the government flag over the village of al have idea it's three kilometers north of connection city which is the main
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border point with the occupied golan heights from there stephanie decker has the latest. we've been witnessing the most intensive fighting that we've seen and we've been here for the last four or five days government forces backed by russia on this last pocket of opposition held territory which is controlled by a group of fairly aged with ice and what has been significant today is that we've actually seen and you can probably see behind me outgoing rocket fire now. we've seen syrian government forces for the first time on the ground through the lens of our camera moving in vehicles and launching a ground attack against the eisel affiliated group so basically it is an intensive campaign they want to take this back it's the last pocket in southwest syria there's also been spillover across the fence because as you can see the fighting is so close and in the distance you can now see airstrikes it has been
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such an intensive campaign and the government with its russian ally very keen to take it back greek authorities say there are serious indications that a deadly wildfire was started by also and at least eighty three people have died in the blazes which spread to beach resorts near the capital after this these aerial shots show the devastation caused to find the fire has one palestinian has died after a knife or talk in the occupied west bank the israeli army says it shot dead the palestinian who carried out the attack at the illegal settlement of a town to the north of ramallah three israelis so cyclists have been injured two are in critical condition. those are the headlines of the andes is coming up next don't go away.
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there's no this does not a cookie the taliban is being ladysmith out of film of own but if you get one with only to keep the faith coca leaf has been a staple in bolivian society for centuries it is also the rowing gradient of cocaine. for twenty years the governments of believe yet backed by the da the u.s. drug enforcement administration sought to eradicate the plant. and in past that believe in world of pain and base. their emotions in the school. in two thousand and eight the new radical government took an unprecedented step and
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throughout the day. today they claim to control production while respecting the traditions passed down by their ancestors. but drug traffickers have also adapt it. may well still perfect. for you but we're going to be seeing as they're going to. go it's. bolivia remains a help for international drug traffickers whose tentacles reach the highest levels of government. monday morning at the cocoa leaf market in believe u.s.
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capital the pass. is in about. every week more than five thousand cocoa farmers come here to sell the need for distribution around the country. and this to maybe a third of the population consumed the mightily bitterly forward stimulants and medicinal properties. there is no shortage of customers. not one of the two of them that under. the uni soon us was bolivia's first minister of cocoa. is one of the founding members of a movement to promote coca consumption and. the kelley review article what i mean of a nickel probably last fall and get up for a companion be when i was a mother to have to. almost all of. those get and i've got. the impression that i'm
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a man then but i. got it by yelling video of. every coca producer is registered to a union that the government claims control screwed and distribution. of that because the coca. cola just made up was a poke at the rather. better if you haven't got the. believe it's the most down look. like splash in the pool do not worry about what i'm a big deal make anything with it can kill me that it's to put it to death. at the article by. it's the medical you see. it must get out. there.
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in the. business is the american but here. is the first. effort. the former farmer now lives in across. from where he not only champions the new system but wants to sell the benefits of coca to the rest of the world. you miss me sleep there's a lot of back. i mean i'm moving from my soon and i'm just too soon as i go there because without. clothing that was from for political gain. he is fighting an uphill battle. the un convention from one thousand sixty one still lists the coca leaf alongside cocaine and heroin the leaf is only legal in peru and bolivia system
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in the. b.c. on the arm of the national standard going to have a good number so he must get the most from that it is a symbol and. he'll believe. that a good bit of a good one will do so but at a good level what a lot of people think there is. is there wasn't in this present because it seems to me that on this in. full now when they're meant to get a muscular how the. economy was put in there to form gave us by them. would have given me the scene. will be shown or said give it to. those. in food to will. because of them.
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for decades past government policy involved the forcible red occasion of the coca plant. today the kochi union backed by the government is primarily responsible for regulating and policing the farmers'. numbers and you're going to be bouncing them down not doing your beloved again looked in on the back in and out of yeah but up with it until now to get blasted the. plan put you in that book of getting it and the second one i was a little bummed out their pathetic piece of acid is going to put it in six hundred kilometers south of the bass in the hills of winter body phillip in one of the ms has grown cocoa all his life were not long ago he was seen as a criminal now his director of a program which controlled farms. for years and today though there's no this does not of. this being allowed in this. out of some of the books of own but it's a good one then with. the by it being
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a full bit on the years with me that the main part of this. is that while getting. out of. you. the new system allows each farmer to grow one thousand six hundred metres square the cocoa on their land. believe in his team have been send records of a farmer who will succeed in his quota. just a little comment on the. c. has not gotten below can even be. considered as in the us. farmers we exceed their quotas are reported by the coca union to the authorities
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thanks those crops are immediately eradicated and farmers can be banned from further cultivation. and you can't see. the limit in this the mental makeup of the. innocent did the young up with it then that also must. be unlucky in love and up in the. second while grandson thirty. one of the marital god the woman did not amount to a lot and he. can both know where will i see him go and when i pick a nearby out of the kids they have been much going for to make going with. me go
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a mile on the ground when. i gave. me a little bit of both to go. yeah i guess you know a question that. when the thought of how most i could commit. were once was hunted down now like many former us philip it makes a steady income from growing the ancestral plant. here to lay them off. to. a full speed in one hundred million to look both. over it. lets them look at them early.
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in the middle of the nick of what could be quite empty. if they are in the. cradle if you go to a moment to get it over the local it will love it but if you. get. in return for economic assistance to live you predicts carried out a u.s. policy of force or predication. in one thousand nine hundred seventy this was stepped up with a five year plan to wipe out coca planting. for people to. give this the namaskar the syria to. leave. both they did so mom was. left in the pit is out of school when you just.
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go to work at all just look up. i think i like i mean i think that at any moment. whether the. minute i mean i mean to look at them in. the resistance of the carlitos transformed into a political movement which completely undermined the status quo and believe you. their leader was a will more or less. did not understand that most of us chose this awful heat because if it will be it'll just stumble but you just let us go find it as you can find your own album body tough oh to those who still like you this place is not yet ascended to those being which is a look at the. akoko farmer himself when i list brought the opposition under his leadership to become bolivia's first indigenous president.
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the first. most of this week and. there's this new company you know president there. really isn't a kid unless you go on this one this is needed in. first place but there's so much i can do that. i can believe you let me show this can get out like you know and it can yeah. that would satisfy wouldn't this it was he said this in two thousand and eight three years have to taking power when i list formally announced his government's radical new policy in the fight against drugs it will be international. belletti that it will be and was going to be eligible this he'll get it david if he does it that he thought it was.
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but if you. don't know that. that was cool kulik look up that look ok files. and eat and eat and eat and. it will mourn our this is now the longest serving president in bolivian history because progressive policies have struck a chord with the average bulletin. board that he took full of million for him in the english but also like i was like i was like if way more than that but in the photos they keep. the promethea own more than he can and. so we know in those ice head of bolivia santa drug agency. like president morales
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he was once a coke a farmer. this was a sports how those mean what you are. what are you going to mean. that is that he was in believe that the entire military's. endorses you don't. begin to. list those rules. in the. doubles in the area in which you're going to. happen in most cities. for all their success in restricting coca-cola. so there are still problems with distribution the un estimates have. still ends up in cocaine production.
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no one knows who they get. them in. the community and. that. the government's goal is to provide a range of coca products that will take the leaf away from drug traffickers. in. the. industry least. by law can see them out with a let me be there in the. barrel
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for those. very important to take a lead let there be a prima kill peaceful medical traffic or to keep it going it's like less of a risk at the rest. of the caucus the equity from either porter or well monita but there. are some we import them to kill not a good article not epperly to the next couple of the article cup but it will get delayed at best of us if we have it before it. will go to the caucus into almost always or no it will. get those here's the low how they cook at thing do is to export better. for you i mean this isn't going to be a lot of noise recorded. every
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few months to eunice yoon us the man who seeks to sow cocoa to the world returns home to his cocoa farm in the mountains of the youngest not far from the capital. i've ever known is that. i could i would be in because they. do not need to me that their mother took me to the moon no question this but what if this is the focus of our call me the us and so to me this can leave the. political to the mother through so the idea of the need to. call them have a clue what i am which didn't. get if you missed the community it was in all this that. you need to is well aware that cocoa farmers can succumb to the money offered by cocaine produces. but claims that the social control largely works. well. a good.
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people you know the you know. one the island in the almost malevolent coco out of medicare that up wasn't. because i'm in the company of those that live on the phone this have been the phones that i demanded control so she had gone to a comment that you. not far from home a phone that was found preparing the base folk ok. using both these only and those points from the official market. is they don't have a b.m. though not. the own rules of the rules this. time around no nowhere around last be the one this is the down there is only that of nobody is bad just cause i get people in being calm down nobody has the balls this woman's a woman as they call it with this b.s.
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that he lead them doesn't count i don't mind the see in. the media think them but i can see that experience in my room. we could both know if they maginnis. or look ok unions attempt to prevent farmers from entering the illegal markets. still many are driven by the huge sums of money to be made satisfying to demand for cocaine. here in the tropics of inter-party the bottle continues. across the. world with one of. those in the blood leaving a lot of the it is eleven out of there is nothing that. will be up to the truth and nothing else.
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as if he just wanted to make a moon. in the window and as you push into i could see some of this is it ok to go to the toilet and i mean. and it was i'm being pissed. off because you know but i meant they were i mean that almost looked at them but you know that i will put up with the gift. of. corporal is a member of a special lantern aquatics police force known as they got us. since bolivia no longer receives assistance from the united states it has found a new ally in the european union which will spend sixty million euros over the next
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three years to help fortify the new believes in models. the most animals. of the mean war not that it was good l. them there well as he said this i like a lot of the little nuggets i think oh i don't want to well of course i cannot then you know what i seem to always get what i just get because of all the bad that i know it's a thousand dollars on the us how long that will mean for. me that he. knows what those bless him or that but he's not the rebels i must replace it with the most the place see him pills us that this is the thing a person. were once they were sent in to terrorize the formants now they stand beside them you believe in model.
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and oh come on. then you can see. that what they got us had received a tip off on the whereabouts of a drug people. corporal yalla has been chosen to take part in the operation quickly as well but at the moment as i want something it will just sink in for the month of any of them. ok and then invited this well then what if if you look there with him what i want
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to stick it to is as good middle of the word day to create it will be will be done earlier. in miller's your birthday and as your photo on the female if you could it be i would have as a record i feel real for those of us who have been peers he'll be able to look you know pick up a good look if i meet a cause that doesn't work for those who are for us in pittsburgh or they are because. they got us are entering into the heart of as joe biden. the birthplace of president morales his revolution. here coca-cola to vacation on cocaine laps still flourish side by side. young man join us you bat in the battle for somalia.
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many never return. loved ones pick up the pieces. to try to understand. from the north i witnessed. on. al-jazeera. where every. i was imprisoned for twenty one years based on false allegations that just made in the last couple of years there's been a number of high profile exonerations of the wrongfully convicted based on police and prosecutorial misconduct you can check me for gunpowder check much well i don't really buy i don't have any going to do nothing if the prosecutor is going to seek convictions for the sake of seeking convictions prosecutors teachers exploring the
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dark side of american justice system with job and on al-jazeera. hello i'm citizen and london with the top stories on al-jazeera former pakistani cricketer turned politician imran khan has declared victory in the general election promising to build a new pakistan votes are still being counted on the official result is not likely to be confirmed until friday the power has been marred by a legations of fraud and army meddling speaking at a con promised a new pakistan or a local. i want to thank god that today we were successful and we got the mandate i now want to outline my vision for pakistan we're going to uplift poor people we're
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going to uplift the labor and laborers who are weak who are dying of hunger our population is either extremely rich or extremely poor if god wills we will fulfill all our promises. yemen's who favorable say they've attacked abu dhabi airport with a drone an official from the united arab emirates has denied their claim the airport tweeted earlier that that been an incident involving a supply vehicle but said it had not affected flights or operations it's not clear if the tweet was referring to the same incident. this as save the children warns yemen is on the verge of a second cholera epidemic more than a million people were infected last year and in just the first week of this month some three thousand new suspected cases were reported. syrian government forces have raised. with the israeli occupied golan heights regime forces could be seen making the gesture on village on the village of hama they are the villages to
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requote north of city which is the main border point with the occupied golan heights. one palestinian has died after a knife attack in the occupied west bank the israeli army says it shot dead the palestinian who carried out the attack at the illegal settlement of to the north of ramallah three of the israeli settlers have been injured two are in critical condition the us government. thousands of children with parents they were separated from the us mexico border most defiance already back with their parents following an earlier court deadline more than two thousand five hundred over the age of five must also be written by. those of the headline snow continues .
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while the government on the leaders may have regulated the growth of coca plants the production of cocaine continues unabated. the task of detecting drug activity relies on believe his own special onto narcotics police force they've got us. thinking a little bit but i'm going to keep reading legislation will be living in a photograph they. can be a source of cocaine. that
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will. get him to. say i. must commit just. by the key. to the. case if you don't. think. i'm still hurting. duffield. the coca leaves are soaked in
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chemicals including sulfuric acid ammonia and gasoline. because i mean. a lab of this size is likely to produce four kilos of cocaine a day. believe in officials make great claims that three hundred of them are busted every month yet a few producers of a colt. but i think they. will.
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be. field experience for both of those. limits because of. another one of the. cool all the claims of the government's drug production into party seems to be flourishing. the heart of the battle is in the tropical eastern sit. you know something. here traffic is had established an international base. this man is
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a pilot we would call him because he has flown drug planes in and out of the local airport for his. temper. you know we are. going to have an hour to do. there we don't believe him peek out here mark you know for the record. we're going to go to see them you. know me move they i'm so that your fight is going to see into for me no no no. no says he earns around thirty thousand dollars for every international flight he makes transporting cocaine. he flies at least three times and i. mean if you're going to go forward you're welcome. evil from our. glorious young here where most obviously.
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i go people want to make good for my merits or moral police. i thought electorate got broken a record but it's you know we're going to. raise your but as if it is your little money on the arm or a can or going on top i'm sorries regular going to the movies or he's. godless agrees to take us to the outskirts of an outpost that is often the starting point for cocaine no trafficking. some poker will be totally a mother as for me being on stage like the. good one or ok we will. cover the blue
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bar where he. told me he. left on the mat there will soon be a good time we're going to know you were on the intake but it sure makes me. in the past five years flights between peru and bolivia have multiplied. the authorities claim to trace five flights a day out of the van i'm valley in peru the new global center for cocaine production. this is carlos its regular route picking up cocaine base from the road to be turned into powder in bolivia laboratories. in the strawberries are more like they made it i mean. they are not the. most recent years on we russians when they move. for
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a moment or yell are now i hear. they're not raining momento at their present water. remarked you know. joe somebody did nuclear armed with numbers. if you're going to. the authorities have almost no way of controlling a craft flying low over the dense rain forests. from bolivia the main distillation is brazil the second largest cocaine market in the world after the us. but are you into really was the only one not of your. not going for an hour your memory did. one for just a little more serious. most
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is. this the end. game. and the things you mean. isn't it time mostly they gave us a. better mask. as recently as. across town of headquarters of elizabeth known for being highly critical of every model is government. didn't and c.b.s. has been its leading reporter on crime and drugs for over twenty years. my value chain going to michael duffy my own control elected look at them. coca about intimidate if i like little bit of me which i think in my eyes. in.
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him but important. i guess for the needle a i will be in and. i mean to admit it. a political i meant. because you know listen if you've got a forewarning. in april two thousand and fifteen either was the only journal. is to interview them on kind of the owner a colonel from the bolivian army a release of the two full pay triple out implicating senior government officials in a drug trafficking ring. immediately afterwards the current one fled to spain. leaving gay that the target of a mirage of official criticism. in which your document i mean they take it they would be in and out but that only. coming political and i could have a good article that. messiness with a notion of a k. a let up out it i.e.
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be a leader by not a bad people. it'll be a not that though they mean he said it had been c.p.o. idio getting caught on a bit of a case of any case i looked. it up where we had no but those what may go days to name it is headed like i see america on a. three months later the coup now when the old man returns to libya and publicly contradicted all his previous claims were the day before either suffered a terrible tragedy the. commanding a sample. of him but it. made. me mad. i freeze yeah the. west i'm
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glad i. got. a. little document that. we had to go on at the idea. of going for a bit of alley and then go. for it on creaming in about a minute there are those merely in the. bed or a bunny. or warning this sort of thing and there are. no new meanies sure they get a young girl in the us they were there last lap where the. gleaming black. in evening got in. that it was as you know against their will to.
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be elite is a she is headed that. way and then not a lesson. as she doesn't. mean the road anymore come up with a no minimum in mind then they gave in they meant they got any of the. blame on this idea come easy and this. is a clinic a religion they way are not and. muzzling about any. give it is determined to find out if the two events were connected. he's aware of the risks this poses so his family. matter. over it like so many drug santas something is plagued by unsolved murders. he that
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may have his suspicions but finding proof or getting help from the police is almost impossible. sometimes he don't miss a name and even documented so day. by day medical school and then i might. have been mentioning that. in the mental. i get in a way and then what i. forgot the pilot something cruise this is center of operations. the international mafias that now have influence all across the city i simple use. bound or maybe there
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were. more of us are here and you. will. be. the other off. with owning surpassing fifty thousand dollars a month most enjoys a life without routine. only to dump. out of a stuff like i am very little in order to give it a beautiful. as god knows drives us to one of his planes he points out some of the surprising number of pilot schools that have sprung up offering training for thirty thousand dollars they were also already made earlier but there are people that. are over there because they were so you're. right. in a good sort of people the. whole but there will be because i know. it will be. over by.
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the onion though he. wanted a lot of money looking over a window summer when my. mom would not pull in the. money how wonderful it is. for me move for i'm going to marry her murderer or no you might only have a few of the table i need to. get that in the basement d.n.a. it was a myth and not done anything more. for them in medicine fifty. million means the symbolism. today is a little slow but you. know. the letter. will prove you know mama been in philly and the old the better
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for a. single sighing it a mind they all feels that way. be inside she does have you or they will blow it there when they do they don't know what your very dumb think. you are but i me all three of one cos i'm very good out of my barrel no. where are. you. since the time of the incas coke has been growing and these hits. but it wasn't until the one nine hundred eighty s. with the constantly increasing demand for cocaine in the west that coca too cold of significant segments of the economy.
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mr president this is joe is the use of this into levene let's not the. not. here in the us eunice yoon years part time so that his hometown maintains a cultural connection to coke as traditionally use. their. own personal that talked about prophetic rights that she organized as a ritual to give things to mother earth harvest was as to me that i think that a nice young man. only that i laugh about is that then the where you get it you
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will get in a match at. that on the other now that your company has a fit because they now go. could be. your spouse. that time of the not to be there is no such there is no missed calls to miss most. of the last that it will now or doesn't last that is my most as it is or . is a better day going on of both days just a bit more and you know local is not a good company. what i. meant of this cannot really explore south of that. lets you know. there's any money except there in the. more. home care more. needles in.
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need in. the. new all. based on. what is a life in east london that now all. the more new member material can lead people to get away. after days of pressuring authorities give a reason his way to demand answers on his mother smothered. in the air.
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in the leg. on the top of a. three months later given no snow mome. what the authorities and the gangs behind the murder of his mother. and what does that mean for the rest of his family and himself. but their life and you. will hear and then.
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the list that. he has yeah now that's who. you know he that is they knew. i was there if the here you see with what i saw him being even. just. circling above it seems. to me. it's what i said there. are. a few running believe it has been blacklisted by the united states alongside but a manhunt as well so failing it says to adhere to international lantern a car to extend some go. but for most bolivians the price of rejection
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means they are more in control of the country. or years will not bow. down before any more fair up or more status or not that he will not pay these young can almost any level border meaning. any of us going back and as young. as eleven ever said i'm out of it is murtha know how to cope. mostly about a question i don't like it but i still stand he said i think that quite often. you know state about it being called by the government but up and down with a. lot of the. most almost quite a remote every mood on the outlook that i believe will pull in the ability of the left back most voters given the old this about. and what by these people should be
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mean but i think we're more than welcome ways to look and had almost reached out and in this global never pressed most of the most five thousand people don't go back to the whole. program. and. they. take it back and go have a go at the beauty of other you get out of one go to heaven when the police see the import of have found for them are going to get them into a bit too conservative if a million people is that the time for the muslim could be a buy used to go out with all of this music that us out of neutral mounts on. the body. of the day. the american. flag.
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welcome back let's start our forecast by looking at weather conditions across australia and you see this low pressure center given the risk of rain so outlay could see some rain during the course of friday we've also fronts pushing through parts of western a stratus a bit of an unsettled picture here not a particularly warm picture so i had through into the weekend struck it just sixteen degrees there in perth city not looking too bad highs of twenty one but the possibility we're going to showers here how do you across into new zealand we've
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got some showers for the western side of the south and in particular cheering friday and then as we head into the start of the weekend i think both arms could see a few showers but again a bit of sunshine in between times temperatures not too bad for this time of the year heading up into northeastern parts of asia the main theme over the last week ten days has been the heat wave now the heat wave is just breaking for the time being we have lower temperatures and part of that is due to the wind picking up ahead of this typhoon junk garri which is going to move across honshu gere in the course of into sunday so we're looking about twenty one g.m.t. on saturday it will certainly bring some extremely strong winds but will bring torrential rains good news it oversea gets rid of the heat wave for the time being the bad news is central parts of honshu could see some significant flooding. twelve boys in their football coach go missing deep in a cave in northern timer with rising floodwaters rescuers are running out of time
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